Posts Tagged ‘middle rio grande conservancy district’
States Agree to Help NM Farmers on the Rio Grande
July 24, 2020 – It’s another hot, dry year for New Mexico and the state’s largest river. The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District was even set to run out of water to deliver to farmers. But an agreement between Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas is allowing the release of 38,000 acre feet of water –…
Read MoreOur Land: Climate Change and New Mexico’s Water Supply
April 11, 2019 – On this month’s installment of Our Land, environmental correspondent Laura Paskus looks at how rising temperatures around the globe affect us here in New Mexico. She heads to the Rio Grande in Algodones to see how climate change is forcing irrigators to innovate.The interview is a companion piece to the broadcast…
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